Classic EverQuest Expands Again

[Evil Avatar]

EverQuest? Sony Online Entertainment Announces Depths of Darkhollow Expansion for EverQuest (http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050615/law086.html) is a headline on Yahoo! News announcing another expansion pack for classic EverQuest.

EverQuest: Depths of Darkhollow will have players adventuring in raw, bleak caverns and facing the most formidable monsters yet. Featuring new lands with beautiful graphics, a bold new storyline, and fierce new creatures including Sporali, Clockwork Gnomes and the frightening Werewolves, EverQuest: Depths of Darkhollow is the next great expansion pack for the fantasy adventure that is EverQuest. For the first time ever, players will have the ability to play as a monster and experience EverQuest lore first hand through the eyes of another character while they do battle against their ancient foes. Players will also utilize Spirit Shrouds to don the form of a lower level creature to join newbie friends in battle. EverQuest: Depths of Darkhollow is bursting with new adventures and features for players of all levels.

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The new expansion will be downloadable via the EverQuest Station Store for U.S. $29.99 (plus tax where applicable). Retailers will be offering a boxed version that will carry a suggested retail price of $29.99, which includes exclusive post cards illustrated by world-renowned artist, Larry Elmore, as well as a special in-game item, a Clockwork Boar mount, for players to enjoy. Additionally, a special in-game item will be available to consumers who pre-order and digitally download direct from Sony Online Entertainment.People with the Sony all-access pass are certainly getting a lot of games for their money these days.

[XenonCJ]

As much as I hated this game I still wish I could go back and play it sometimes.... Wait, did I just say that? Please shoot me.

[BloodAngel]

I loved EQ before SoV, there was somthing magical about the game then, for me I have been able to recapture some of that magic with EQ 2. Yeah I know a lot of folks hate EQ 2, but I'm having fun and that's all that matters.

[Blue]

I do have to say that I'm impressed with Sony still supporting EQ. That's pretty cool of them to continue to try and please this portion of their fan-base. Personally, I never really got into the first EQ and felt the demo for EQ 2 was more "okay" than anything (just not my cup of tea), but I would have expected EQ to have been done and over with years ago. Kudos I suppose for that.

Not to hijack the thread, but I'm half-thinking of picking up SWG because I've always been curious - raging Star Wars fan - and I finally have a computer able to handle it. Is SWG on its way out or does it still have a family large community?

[Heretic Machine]

You know, I hate EQ... But the whole "play as a monster" and playing with newbies even at high levels sounds like a step forward for the game. Good going Sony, don't fuck it up.

[Heretic Machine]

Not to hijack the thread, but I'm half-thinking of picking up SWG because I've always been curious - raging Star Wars fan - and I finally have a computer able to handle it. Is SWG on its way out or does it still have a family large community?

It'll still be around for some time to come, at least a few years. It's not that great of a game, but it has an -excellent- roleplaying community. So if you have any interest in actually being IC, this would be a good place to look. Plus it's pretty much the best Scifi MMO out right now...

[Blue]

It'll still be around for some time to come, at least a few years. It's not that great of a game, but it has an -excellent- roleplaying community. So if you have any interest in actually being IC, this would be a good place to look. Plus it's pretty much the best Scifi MMO out right now...

I've been looking for a decent RPing environment as of late, something that might pique my interest. Tried to play a bit of a RP character within the Matrix Online but that went south real fast. Star Wars seemed like it would easily lend itself to that type of environment. Thanks for the advice Perigon.

[Heretic Machine]

Check out the Starsider server. When I still played, that was a pretty good place to RP.

[Rommel]

What was wrong with SoV? It was a high level area anyway, what magic did it remove? To me, EQ died when Shadows of Luclin appeared.

[bobbler]

Well... EQ1 still has a surprisingly decent population (in its peak it was only ~100k users higher than it is now). it still hovers around ~400-450k active accounts, which it has held for quite a while now. EQ2 is only around ~300-350k users, sadly -- I think that game is a lot better than people give it credit for (their updates through patches blizzard could learn a ton from).

If anyone is bored and wants to take a gander at a fairly accurate list of MMO populations... MMOG Chart (http://www.mmogchart.com)

[Heretic Machine]

(their updates through patches blizzard could learn a ton from).

Blizzard's patcher is fucking bullshit. Origin MASTERED the auto-patcher ten years ago with UO, and all these bastards can do is rip-off bit torrent (badly I might add.) If there were one flaw with WoW that I could change, it'd be the patcher.

[Curi]

EverQuest: Depths of Darkhollow will have players adventuring in raw, bleak caverns

Is it just me, or is "raw, bleak caverns" a completely unappealing description of a gaming environment?

[bobbler]

Blizzard's patcher is fucking bullshit. Origin MASTERED the auto-patcher ten years ago with UO, and all these bastards can do is rip-off bit torrent (badly I might add.) If there were one flaw with WoW that I could change, it'd be the patcher.

I meant not only only the patcher mechanism (I hate bit torrent patchers -- Per file patching is easily the best), but also how often they do it (which is equally abysmal).

[Blue]

Is it just me, or is "raw, bleak caverns" a completely unappealing description of a gaming environment?

I agree. Sounds more like "we were lazy and just made a large stretch of this wall that's kind of a purple-grey color to simulate rock." Bleak seems as though it's void of anything and, with an MMO, one needs something to be there. As far as I understand it.

[woodentaco]

What was wrong with SoV? It was a high level area anyway, what magic did it remove? To me, EQ died when Shadows of Luclin appeared.
Well, the main thing was that it was a big paradigm shift for EQ into giant raids and uberloot. SoV had zero content for anybody who wasnt middle-high level or higher. It was designed to keep people stuck on the same characters, which wasn't really the magic of EQ, at least in the beginning. Building a character up to a decently high level was the part that was really a blast; sitting at 60 wasn't very much fun at all in comparison.

[TrackZero]

"adventuring in raw, bleak caverns"

mmmm, just where I always picture myself adventuring. Sony, you read my mind!

[TrackZero]

Blizzard's patcher is fucking bullshit. Origin MASTERED the auto-patcher ten years ago with UO, and all these bastards can do is rip-off bit torrent (badly I might add.) If there were one flaw with WoW that I could change, it'd be the patcher.

Uh, it's not a rip-off, it was literally made on the bittorrent protocol (not to disagree with your comments, just pointing that out).

[51|RandoM]

EQ died for me at the beginning of beta four, lol.

WoW is the first one I beta'd and still felt like paying to play after release.

[Heretic Machine]

Uh, it's not a rip-off, it was literally made on the bittorrent protocol (not to disagree with your comments, just pointing that out).

I realize this, but it seems to have more problems connecting to the torrent than most other bit torrent clients. From what I understand, some people have even ripped the torrents out of the program so that it's usable with a normal client.

[BloodAngel]

What was wrong with SoV? It was a high level area anyway, what magic did it remove? To me, EQ died when Shadows of Luclin appeared.


It was the beginning of SOE catering to power gamers, by the time GOD came out they had painted themselves in a corner where they could not produce uber content fast enough to keep the l337 guilds happy.

The death rattle for me is when the developers invited the Uber Guild leaders for a sit down, now EQ is a raid only game, and when the Guild leaders say shit SOE says what color.

SOE is desperatly trying to keep EQ II from this fate, but we are seeing more and more EQ uber guilds showing up and crying about the same crap that fucked up EQ.

[TrackZero]

I realize this, but it seems to have more problems connecting to the torrent than most other bit torrent clients. From what I understand, some people have even ripped the torrents out of the program so that it's usable with a normal client.

I don't see why they'd have done so. In the client, as it's running, there's a checkbox to turn off the torrents and just download straight from Blizzard....

[dead]

i pity a fool who auctually plays everquest. do something better with your life.

[Kefkataran]

i pity a fool who auctually plays everquest. do something better with your life.

As you post this in an online discussion board? Huh?

[CarpeAmentum]

As much as I hated this game I still wish I could go back and play it sometimes.... Wait, did I just say that? Please shoot me.


Well, In case you, or any other former players of EQ would want to try something similar but new, check our Winter's Roar (http://www.wintersroar.com/) It is a free EverQuest Mod, yes, FREE....

[BloodAngel]

i pity a fool who auctually plays everquest. do something better with your life.

Mr. T!!!! So the rumors are false, you're not buried in horseshit after all!

[Kefkataran]

Whoa. I might check out Winter's Roar. It's free? Hrm...

Too... tempting...

[Kefkataran]

The only thing i need for that stupid free server that I don't have is Shadows of Luclin. Which is to say I have that, but I'm not really sure where. Might go digging through my CD stack tonight.